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Upgrade postfix 2.0.3 to 2.1.1 on Solaris 8

Hi,

There are two servers, one having postfix 2.0.3 and the other 2.1.1 version. This is around 7 year old setup and no documentation left. Could someone help me to upgrade the 2.0.3 to 2.1.1 version. I cannot do a 'make upgrade' as these machines do not have a build environment.

Is there practical way to do this upgrade by copying binaries, settings from 2.1.1 server to 2.0.3 server? Also noticed that one uses Berkeley db 4.1 and the other uses 2.7.7.

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>I'm wonderging whether copying the /usr/postfix/ from 2.1.1 over 2.0.3 will work?
it is likely work, it depands on how thw package was installed, to play safe, you need to backup the old package first, eg, in the box whith the old version, you do:
mv /usr/postfix /usr/postfix2.0.3
create a tar ball from the box with version 2.1.1, eg:
cd /usr
tar -cf postfix2.1.1.tar postfix
then copy the tarball (postfix2.1.1.tar ) to the box to be upgraded, and untar it under /usr.
You could also download the binary package from:http://sunfreeware.com/indexsparc8.html
or install it from source code.